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. 2017 Oct 23;10:510. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2481-1

Table 1.

Species diversity indices by trap type. Values for Simpson’s Index of diversity, Shannon-Wiener’s diversity and Shannon-Wiener’s evenness for two trap types in three countries, Sweden, the Netherlands and Italy

Taxonomic diversity Sweden The Netherlands Italy
BGS MMLP BGS MMLP BGS MMLP
No. of samples (trapping nights) 138 136 159 153 160 141
No. of species trapped 14 29 8 12 16 24
No. of specimens trapped 270 1028 2397 899 2108 3489
Simpson’s Diversity Index 0.776 0.877 0.091 0.475 0.469 0.722
Shannon-Wiener’s diversity 1.874 2.377 0.225 0.942 1.033 1.611
Shannon-Wiener’s evenness 0.71 0.706 0.108 0.379 0.373 0.507

Abbreviations: BGS Biogents Sentinel trap, MMLP Mosquito Magnet Liberty Plus trap